Last Friday, René Bohnsack was invited to deliver a keynote on Smart City Business Models at the Marketing & Sales Community day of Efacec. Efacec is a prestigious Portuguese company, present in over 65 countries, focused on developing products and systems with high added value for the energy, environment, mobility and transportation industries.

We are honored to announce that our innovation and venture creation platform Smart Business Modeler won the Gold Award for the most innovative, impactful, and scalable ICT tool empowering outstanding teaching and learning!

It still seems like a dream. We must thank Reimagine Education Awards & Conference for enabling this transformative experience and Amazon Web Services […]

One of our master teams from the business model innovation course is a winner in the Big Smart Cities University Challenge. From the 10 finalists, 3 groups won the final prize and the three students with their project “RewardYourWaste” were among them.

“RewardYourWaste” wants to reward people for sorting their waste and tackle the low recycling percentage, […]

One of our master teams was selected from 80 teams to go further in the big smart cities 5G University challenge organised by Vodafone Power Lab and Ericsson. Their idea called “RewardYourWaste” wants to reward people for sorting their waste and tackle the low recycling percentage, incorrect sorting and change the users’ perception of recycling.

The Portuguese German Chamber of Industry and Commerce and the Smart City Innovation Lab at Católica Lisbon are looking for the most innovative companies in Portugal. Innovation is key for development and therefore an important factor for prosperity. For the innovation award of the Portuguese German Chamber of Industry and Commerce both the innovativeness of […]

LISBON, PORTUGAL. Oct 25, 2018 – The Smart Business Modeler will be launching a novel innovation platform at the 2018 Web Summit as a part of the Alpha Exhibition in Lisbon, Portugal. The Smart Business Modeler seeks to empower ideators, from any industry, context or experience, to launch their ideas with sustainable and innovative business […]

A conference with the hot topic “Smart Cities – Opportunities and Challenges” was taking place as part of the initiative Knowledge@CatólicaLisbon on the 26th of September at Católica. The Smart City Innovation Lab organised the mini conference, which was moderated by its founder, René Bohnsack. The program started with a welcome note by the Dean […]

Join us for the Knowledge@CatolicaLisbon conference on: “Smart Cities” on Sep 26 at 6.30pm. We have an excellent international panel that will discuss the challenges and opportunities in the urban space. More info and registration here: https://goo.gl/sdvcwU